Cool photoshop effects and tutorials teaching the secret tricks required to create them yourself are always good to have around when ideas pop up. In fact good tutorials help can you to create things in Photoshop most people would not believe possible and this without being an expert. Of course knowledge and experience with Photoshop makes it a lot easier and faster to achieve stunning results but with plenty of practice and patience it is possible. By going through a some cool Photoshop tutorials step by step you learn and may apply the techniques to your own ideas and creations.
In this post I have collected and categorized 100 really cool Photoshop effects with reference images making it super easy for you to find the tutorial you need. In previous post in tripwire magazine you also Photoshop water effect, Photoshop smoke effects and much more.
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Cool Photoshop Effects Index
Top 20 Cool Photoshop Text Effect:
With Photoshop text effects you can turn simple flat typography into amazing art.
2. Quality Styles (Gold, Chrome, Glass and more)
This is a pack of 16 quality styles for Photoshop. Use the gold, chrome, stone, copper, metal styles and all the others for your web or print work!
by GraphicRiver (premium Photoshop Add-on )
5. Dimensions – 3D Generator Action
The Photoshop Action ‘Dimensions’, helps you to generate whatever you want (text, image, shape, etc,) in 3D
by GraphicRiver (premium Photoshop Add-on )
6. Colorful Light Burst text effect
9. Glass effect
11. Glossy Emblem Text Effects
22 actions make it simple to create that vintage wood type letterpress look. Simply select the layer and hit play! Complete with 11 different textures and 2 sizes of each. Great for print or web! Works on ALL layer types (text, vector & raster).
by GraphicRiver (premium Photoshop Add-on)
16. Spray Paint Text
18. Transparent Glass text effect
19. Pressed – Letterpress Photoshop Styles
Save time by using pre-built great looking styles in Photoshop! This is a set of 5 letterpress Photoshop styles – they will make your text look as though it’s been pressed into any color background. With each of the 5 primary styles, there are 3 styles based on your text size: Small, Medium or Large. In all there are 15 styles.
by GraphicRiver (premium Photoshop Add-on )
Top 20 Background Effects:
22. Abstract Kaleidoscope effect
23. Magical rainbow color flame
24. Signature movement background
25. Chroma Wallpaper
27. Swirl effect
28. Futuristic Tech Background
33. Stainless steel background
36. Smolding gold
40. Rusty Surface
Top 20 Lighting Effects:
42. Dusty light
44. Expressive lighting effect
45. Glowing effect
48. Inverting effect
52. Powerball Effect
53. Professional Lighting Effects
55. Sparkling Effect
56. Magic Night
58. Energy Spheres
60. Speeding car with lighting
Top 20 General Photoshop Effects:
61. Sin city effect
67. Dynamic effect
69. Gritty Effect
70. Grungy effect
71. Halftone Effect
73. Smoke effect
75. Vector based portrait effect
76. Vintage effect
78. Watercolor Painting Effect
79. X-ray effect
80. Eclipse effect
Top 20 Photo Manipulation Effects
Photo manipulation Photoshop effects are at the heart of what Photoshop should be used for. It is truly amazing what can be done when you know how to do it.
81. Ripping And Tearing Poster Effect
83. Deathly Photo Manipulation
84. Dynamic photo manipulation effect
87. Garden on face
88. Magic of Violin
90. Mythical Encounter Manipulation
91. Color Combustion
95. Surreal Ancient Egypt Scene
96. Modern Ruins
99. Eye Manipulation
100. Flaming Photo Manipulation
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Nice stuff. I like it.
Great collection Mahesh!
not all effects are owned!
Very cool Photoshop effects! I’m really liking most of them and would surely like to learn them as well.
Thanks a lot for sharing!
Really very cool Photoshop effect. No doubt it is a nice and effective post. It helps me very much.
Really Amazing Stuff and collection.
Amazing stuff, and tutorial thx 🙂